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Comment Re:In the beginning (Score 2) 81

> Nobody seems to be willing to route both the original video and the ads through the same server

The only ads I ever see on youtube are the ones the content creators insert themselves into their own video. So this is already being done and gives content creators control over the ads being served while receiving the ad revenue they need to maintain their channel.

I don't know anyone who complains about ads served this way. The creators themselves are incentivized to make the ads tasteful and short and they understand that a view has the power to skip past it manually if they are inclined. This seems to be the proper way to handle it.

Comment Re:Getting caught with one can mean death (Score 1) 135

Nowhere in my comment did I mention America or Trump or any "conservative" view. It's a quote from the UN regarding the Iranian theocracy arresting, torturing, and murdering their own people for the crime of talking about what's happening there.

Iran was murdering their own people by the tens of thousands long before this conflict with America started. Perhaps your focus should be on the atrocities being committed there rather than trying to blame them on the US?

Comment Getting caught with one can mean death (Score 1, Informative) 135

> The UNâ(TM)s top human rights official warned on Wednesday that Iraniansâ(TM) rights are being eroded in âoeharsh and brutal ways,â citing a surge in executions, mass arrests and alleged abuses amid a widening crackdown on dissent

https://news.un.org/en/story/2...

Iran is not the innocent place the media portrays it as.

Comment It's the NDA's that bother me (Score 5, Insightful) 120

"Gerger was also frustrated by the proliferation of non-disclosure agreements between big tech companies and local officials"

There should never be a situation where local officials can hide their negotiations behind NDA's. They are PUBLIC officials and the public has the right to know what decisions they are making on behalf of the community (as opposed to the officials enriching themselves or pocketing huge campaign donations).

Comment Re: And who monitors this for abuse? (Score 2) 43

The solution isn't to censor, it's to clearly label it.

Community notes on X are a good example of how to expose deceitful content without the need for outright censorship, a similar solution would be appropriate here.

If you allow politicians and government officials to decide what the public can or cannot see you can 100% guarantee that system will be abused.

And I would wager these same officials would hire, at taxpayer expense, teams to make sure any negative content would be removed. The public would be paying to have their own voices silenced.

Comment And who monitors this for abuse? (Score 5, Insightful) 43

Just being AI based doesn't mean it's intention is to deceive. In most cases it's parody or protected free speech.

I have no issue with slapping a big "AI Deepfake" label on identified deepfake content, but when you start talking about giving politicians and government officials the ability to prevent you from even being heard, that's not ok.

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